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NOTE: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. “That’s how cruel people are,” says Ndeni Mntungwa, surveying the littered wetland of Yende Park in central Daveyton, where he found his son Jabulani’s mutilated body nine years ago. And then, about a year after this murder, the body of Wandile Jasop was found as…

In this episode, Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago joins Bruce to unpack what he calls a “polycrisis of overlapping shocks”, from the war in Iran to Ukraine’s attack on Russian wheat infrastructure and the looming El Niño threat to South African food prices. His message: South Africa’s starting point this…

The Madlanga Commission is no longer willing to entertain Feroz Khan’s excuse that he cannot appear before the inquiry due to his repeated hospitalisations, and orders that he be examined by an independent doctor. The now ex-senior SAPS Crime Intelligence official was first expected to give evidence in June, but…

Another week, another arrest warrant for corruption-accused, suspended deputy Ekurhuleni Metro Police Chief, Julius Mkhwanazi.And never mind Africa’s richest city, Johannesburg council meetings can’t run without diesel, evident in this week’s final sitting heavily delayed by a thirsty generator. Plus five other stories you need to know in the week…

NOTE: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. In Part 2 of News24’s narrative podcast investigation, The Daveyton Muti Murders, we honour the memory of budding Wits University student, Wandile Jasop, and detail a deeply disturbing cycle of extreme violence unfolding in the historic Ekurhuleni town in the late 2010s. Reported over nearly six…